everything smaller is a Brooklyn-based modern dance company co-founded by University of North Carolina at Greensboro Alumni, Jessica Jolly, David Schmidt, and Donnell Turner. The company sprang into action in October 2002 with the work Dining Alone.

Since moving to New York, everything smaller has performed in venues and events such as the Joyce SOHO, Studio 42’s Starving Artist Ball, Movement Research's Improvisation is Hard, The Flea Theater's Dance Conversations, the DancenOw / NYC Festival, the Bodyblend series at Dixon Place, the Solar Powered Arts Festival, Dancespace Center's Wave of Humanity and their Elizabeth Pape Memorial Concert, the Williamsburg Free Festival, the International D.U.M.B.O Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts Benefit Concerts, Waxworks, Teresa Wimmer's Twilight Project, and the Brooklyn Dance Sampler. In addition to performing in the New York metro area, everything smaller has travelled to Arizona, New Jersey, North Carolina, Philadelphia, and Vermont, offering a variety of master classes, composition workshops, and performances. everything smaller was granted the Elizabeth Pape Scholarship in 2004 to support the creation of I'll Build Me A Boat (2005).

Presently everything smaller is collaborating with composer Michael Wall and actor John Edwin Peery to create an evening length work to be premiered in Winter 2007, Building it Up and Breaking It Down.